About the day » Monday June 5, 1916Calender converter

• Anna Kroese, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Adriana Maria van den Biggelaar, Oisterwijk (Brabant) († 1971)
• Adriana Maria Cornelia van der Pol, Goirle († 2000)
• Adriaantje MONSTER, 's-Gravendeel († 1974)
• Albert Desideer Windels, Avelgem (Waarmaarde), West-Vlaanderen, België († 2008)
• Anna Cornelia Hendrika Maria van Lent, Gorinchem
• Anneke (Antje) Brolsma, Groningen, Nederland († 1961)
• Adriana Verhaar, Mijdrecht, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1942)
• Aart Holtman, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, NL († 1982)
• Anna Maria Theresia Hamers, Hilvarenbeek († 1996)

• Alida Dongelmans (36), Rotterdam
• Antonius Johannes Gerardus Jogems (1), Rossum
• Anna Hermine Mathilde Westerouen van Meeteren (51), Göttingen, Nedersaksen
• Antje Schouten (15), Leiden
• Amand Louis Joseph Waras (89), Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, France
• Alexander Slok (0), Hof van Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Slok, Hof van Delft
• Abraham Marius de Kruijff (65), Heemstede, Nederland
• Amory Coffin (74), Scanton, Pennsylvania
• anna Maria TIMMERS (83), Berlicum

• 1912 » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and author († 2003)
• 1912 » Eric Hollies, English cricketer († 1981)
• 1913 » Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic († 2000)
• 1914 » Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist and academic († 2016)
• 1916 » Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager († 2011)
• 1916 » Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer († 1973)
• 1919 » Richard Scarry, American-Swiss author and illustrator († 1994)
• 1920 » Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author († 1974)
• 1920 » Marion Motley, American football player and coach († 1999)
• 1922 » Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian soldier, pilot, and politician († 2013)

• 1900 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)
• 1906 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b. 1842)
• 1910 » O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (b. 1880)
• 1930 » Pascin, Bulgarian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1885)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Albert
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Marinus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Neeltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
• January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
• February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
• May 31 » World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
• July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
• August 17 » World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
• December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

The temperature on June 5, 1916 was between 8.7 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.